28. X. 1921

Comrade Bogdanov!

By chance I have learned that the commission (concerning the matter of the Urquhart concession) has still not departed!

This is monstrous red tape, the height of outrage. I propose that you impose penalties on those responsible for the delays and achieve the actual departure immediately.

If the Supreme Council of the National Economy will tolerate such red tape, then we must abandon any "construction."

For the Council of People's Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

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# NOTE TO N. P. GORBUNOV.
II. 17. To Gorbunov
3/XI [1921]

This is already too late. But preserve it just in case.

Lenin.

¹ The expression "this is already too late" refers to N. Morozov's proposal to include M. E. Yuriev, an electrical engineer, in the composition of the commission for the investigation of the Urquhardt concession.

The note was written by Lenin in the margins of N. Morozov's letter.

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# ADDRESS TO PARTY COMRADES OF SIBERIA, THE URALS, AND KIRGHIZIA.

To the Party Comrades of Siberia, the Urals, and Kirghizia.

5. XI [1921]

I very much recommend the bearer, Comrade Mikhailov, chairman of the commission for the investigation of the (proposed) Leslie Urquhardt concession, and I ask all comrades to extend to both the chairman of this commission and all its members **every possible and comprehensive** assistance. The matter is of enormous state-wide and all-federation importance.

For the Council of People's Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin).